Colonial Presbyterian Church

The Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonah. The Ninevites repented and turned from their wicked ways when they encountered the Sign of Jonah. And the men of Nineveh will rise up and condemn this evil generation because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here! 

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Do you know the shepherd? The good shepherd that prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies and overflows my cup, so that everyone and everything around me is affected by His goodness. Do you know the shepherd that gave his life for me, so I can live my life for him. Do you know the shepherd? If you don’t know Him. You need to get to know Him today.

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Jonah’s story is a pre-Christian story of Christian conversion and mission! Such is why it’s so important that Jesus points back to the “sign of Jonah.” Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish as a rebellious soul captured by God’s justice. He cried out to God and was saved by God’s unmerited grace, and he reentered the world as a new man...a saved man...and an ambassador of God’s justice and mercy.

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Jonah now represents those who have been born again. He has been forgiven; God answered his prayer in the deep; and God has blessed his affliction to serve as a sincere and humble testimony of God’s severe judgments and God’s unmerited grace.

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We cannot help but imagine Jonah’s humiliation as he emerges from three days in the belly of a fish, staggering onto the beach covered in fish vomit. Jonah’s story is our story...but ultimately, Jonah’s story is part of HIS STORY! So much of this man’s epic failure sets the stage for what Jesus will call, “The Sign of Jonah.”

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God wants to supply the power to the humble---God wants to use the ordinary ...the regular...the poorest...the weakest...so that when it is all said and done their will be no question to where the power came from when you look in your rearview...you will know that it was God who pushed you...it was God who propelled you...it was God that gave you strength.

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Jesus knows that His Father is not a distant disciplinarian, but a close, compassionate Daddy who hears His Son, loves His Son, and is eager to act on His Son’s desperate cries for help. There is no one in human history who made a greater sacrifice than Jesus Christ did by dying for us on that cross some 2,000 years ago. Let’s honor Him today, and every day, as we remember our true identity as God’s beloved children.

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Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the fish, highlights a self-centered nature and lack of repentance, yet acknowledges God’s grace in accepting Jonah’s flawed but honest plea. His prayer emphasizes the omnipresence of God and the importance of seeking His presence rather than fleeing, as God’s pursuit of us is relentless and His desire for a relationship is paramount. The power of God’s presence in creation is humbling, and humility is necessary to recognize and embrace it, as exemplified by Jonah’s deliverance and the natural world’s testimony to God’s majesty.

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Like many of you, my greatest seasons of spiritual growth have come in seasons of involuntary confinement, so I am deeply motivated to form my own practice of askesis in the days to come. Church, our feelings will not lead us to practice askesis.  But without confinement, concentration, and a deep awareness of our limits, we can easily become a “Jonah”, no matter how noble our intentions.

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